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#translator #writer #exteacher #naturelover #doglover #hiker #reader & #paint covered much of the time Managing/translating at https://paralleltexts.blog/ (when the mood hits). 🇨🇦&🇮🇹 Posts/pics with no author/translator named are me being me
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"...And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind perished utterly;

And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone."

#SaraTeasdale "There will come soft rains"
#poetry #nature
Feathered foreigners -
new this home these icy parks
sprinkled in snow crumbs

#dailyhaikuprompt geese
#poetry #haiku #poetrycommunity #Canada
Our daily haiku prompts for Sep 20-27

Welcome to the new participants and thank you to those who've been here all along.

As always, use the prompts (or not) as you see fit.

North South
09/20 Cascade Cooling
09/21 Somber Crocus
09/22 Chilly Touch
09/23 Salmon Geese
09/24 Footsteps Rock
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General strike in Italy. September 22 2025 for #gaza
It included social media silence for 24 hours...
#peacenow #nomorewar
This is all I have to say on this war-ridden Saturday.
#dogs #peace #saturdayvibes
Another view of this home...
"Casa di Delfina" acrylic on canvas
#Tuscany #hiking #walks #painting #haiku #loss
Love recyclers. They are the best...Who needs tupperware (costs a fortune btw) when you like ice cream?
So I guess the tRump is going to watch the US open tennis match...did they have a trophy made just for him this time around or will he take the winner's (again)?
Hope the heat doesn't get him. Would be sad, so sad, I mean really sad, the saddest thing, like the world has never seen anything so sad.
Do I see insalata di riso in recycled ice cream container?
I have decided that seasons do not mark time for hikers (and their dogs), fruit does: from wild plums to blackberries, strawberry grapes to figs, walnuts to wild pears...
#hiking #dogs #jackrussel #nature
Vines gripped the facade,
searching out lifeless windows
framed hermetic blue

#dailyhaikuprompt vine #haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #loss
When I was teaching here in Florence, my It. colleagues said I spoke too American; my American colleagues said I say words in typical Canadian fashion ( like "aboUt" ?!?), my English colleagues were more worried about their own north, south, east, west and in-between accents than aboUt 😂 me!
Works other way too.
On a bus in Florence, 1983 (1st year here - canadian raised). Elderly eng tourist asks for directions. I tell her. Before she gets off, she turns to me, smiles, and says "by the way you speak beautiful english". Was she thinking "for an Italian"?😂
I find it hopeless. Time spent discussing how much of nothing but waiting.
Reading about *another* publisher not paying royalties. Like, why are people not ring-fencing??? Also, when negotiating your contracts it should say how often authors receive statements/royalties & when, plus it's absolutely ok to ask the publisher how they handle this and how they ring-fence/escrow
If storks bring babies,
what animal takes their limbs,
starves them in their nests?

#dailyhaikuprompt stork
#haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #writing #war #peacenow #genocide
Our Haiku Prompts for Aug 30 to Sep 6

Offered for consideration.

There's power in showing up.

North South
08/30 Clover Mud
08/31 Mist Fresh Water
09/01 Snail Sprouts
09/02 Spice Spring Mud
09/03 Swirl Stork
09/04 New Moon Bird Song
09/05 Vines Abalone
09/06 Crimson Chill

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I am thrilled to participate in this incredible event with an incredible lineup of Palestinian writers and supporters of Palestine, with all ticket proceeds to benefit Palestinian orphans, via INARA. If you’re in New York City, buy your tickets now. I’m pretty sure the event will sell out.
I carry this beautiful book with me from room to room. I read, become overwhelmed, put it down, do stuff, pick it up, read, then carry it into another room with me… I know how it ends. #nakba
#Palestine #SuadAmiry #books
Book isn't out IN Eng but it was translated FROM Eng! Why? 🔗 In comments ⬇️
Oil ripple in a tin
abandoned in the midday
sun: a cat's meow

#dailyhaikuprompt sardines #poetry #haiku #poetrycommunity #writing
Our Haiku Prompts for August 23-30

Just a prompt to prime the pump. Use it how you will.

Practice may not make perfect but it helps.

North South
08/23 Undulate Late
08/24 Lantern Egg
08/25 Refreshing Grove
08/26 Peaches Butterfly
08/27 Sardines Overcoat
08/28 Vine Barely Spring
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